Places you wish had official weather stations

I changed a word. I want to see sun hours like the rest of the world.



A full UHI station in Milwaukee. Downtown or near Lake Michigan. Here are two possible spots (Cathedral Square Park and Veterans Park). I just want to know if it's warmer than the airport even if it's not official. How warm will the nights be? 



Chicago has a station on Northerly Island that is a similar idea. It records much higher lows than the official airport station west of the city. Location on google maps 
"Street" view of the station. 


July and August average in Northerly Island (2006-2019)   82.0/68.4 and 80.9/68.5
July and August average in O'Hare Airport (2006-2019) 84.4/65.7 and 82.6/64.6

It'd be really interesting if they'd set up a weather station in the meteor crater near Flagstaff, Arizona. Probably some pretty insane diurnal ranges there and extreme lows.

Somewhere here, in the Jamison Valley of the Blue Mountains. I'm pretty sure it's much hotter there than the elevated parts (such as Katoomba at 1,000m with its mild summers).

Right in the middle of the Atlantic at 42N where it's equidistant between Halifax and Lisbon. Would be interesting to see the effect of the ocean has on the seasonal lag and the change in sun/rain patterns due to the Azores High in the summer/early fall, and how much it differs from Toronto despite having a similar latitude. Probably would be an Oceanic climate not far from my dream climate

Perhaps like this disused site in the Harding River Valley about 30klm inland from Roebourne ? This was in use for a few years in the 1980's during the construction of Harding Dam.
As an aside I asked Dr. Blair Trewin ( the BOM's records and extremes Guru, as well as one of the architects of ACORN-SAT 1 and 2 ) to look for the data from this site. He found the rainfall records but not the temp data.....appears it was not an official BOM site, but was installed by the State Govt and the construction company for the duration of the project building the Dam.
I worked in and around Roebourne a few years ago, in fact I experienced the 49.4c day in Dec 2011, the site record. Extremes in Roebourne are subject to the timing of the sea breezes (as are the other Pilbara coastal hot spots such as Mardie and Onslow ), so a site 30klm inland and in a valley at low altitude might record some 'interesting extremes.

It'd be interesting to see a proper UHI station in Copenhagen, similar to the ones in Stockholm and Oslo.

However, it would be interesting to see what happens inside the volcanic calderas of the Galapagos Islands, which are tropical islands with various oddities on their own due to the influence of the Humboldt current.

I wish that NW New Jersey & NE Pennsylvania had NWS Scranton or NWS Allentown as their core weather station. Hunterdon, Warren, and Sussex counties has a climate that is very different from NWS Upton or NWS mount holly.

The lack of stations in one of the arguably most interesting parts of Sweden topographically, the High Coast, is completely ridiculous. Almost all stations are located at altitudes of 150-250m ASL even though there's a lot of populated area at 30-70m ASL. Between Umeå and Sundsvall, there are three low altitudes stations that are on the edges of peninsulas or islands, there's one low altitude station in Härnösand that is actually representative of somewhere that isn't the immediate coastal shore, and then there's the Sundsvall/Härnösand airport station in a frost hollow that's 0.8'C colder annually than the Härnösand station 15 miles away at the same distance from the sea. 
It's actually preposterous that two of the biggest towns north of Uppsala, Örnsköldsvik and Sundsvall, don't have any representative stations. Örnsköldsvik has one at their airport at 130m ASL, and Sundsvall's airport station is 30km north of the city horribly cold. There was a station for a brief moment in one of the rural surburbs of Sundsvall and that station was like 1.5'C milder than the airport station while active.
I marked all stations below 100m in red. There's one station at 99m marked in orange. I then marked examples of reasonable station placements in black, excluding better stations with or without UHI in Umeå.


Obviously there doesn't have to be a station at every one of those black spots. But at least a couple would be nice?? And it's absolutely ridiculous how there are absolutely no stations at all representing the inland High Coast that aren't way higher altitude than most of the population in the area. There's one station in Forse far up the Ångerman river that recorded 22.6'C average highs for July 2002-2018 at 63'N despite being at 125m ASL. I marked it in red on this map below. Makes me so frustrated that they'd decide to put their only station in that entire long fjord/fjard and river valley at 125m ASL when there's so much area nearby at 30-60m ASL, and like >90% of the people living in the area live at half the altitude. It's obviously an area with very interesting climates, so why did they have to fuck it up with a moderate altitude station instead of on any of the black-marked spots?